The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I haven't had to change any clocks.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
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@Karla at a certain age, I resolved this via the conclusion "...fuckers.", given their success rate.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But the emulation layer for x86 is probably fast enough it can run all the retro shit I like
For non-performance sensitive stuff it is basically transparent. You can only tell if you look it up. No idea about games, I'd guess there's other issues.
My solution is to keep a current build spec for a top-of-the-line tower or smb server gaming rig, with as much parallelized float and integer as I can make available in a case that I can get speakers enough louder than the cooling for.
Then what I actually buy is a 17" laptop every 2d4 years.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
As someone who had to come in to work early on the morning of January 1, 2000 to make sure we hadn't missed something in the Y2K amelioration we'd spent the previous 18 months working on, I know that some people did forget. Before driving to the office (and discovering that McDonald's wasn't open before 6am so I went without breakfast), I logged in to the local TV stations news site to find them announcing the date as January 1, 19100.
As for DST, we re mostly immune to such foolishness here in Arizona, but that means we're especially prone to forget to replace the batteries in our smoke detectors.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we re mostly immune to such foolishness here in Arizona
Ah, but then you have the Native American reservations that create great confusion — enclaves within enclaves within enclaves that do/don't/do DST.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we re mostly immune to such foolishness here in Arizona
Ah, but then you have the Native American reservations that create great confusion — enclaves within enclaves within enclaves that do/don't/do DST.
But only if you care about them. How often does one even spend enough time going through the reservations to even notice?
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've solved this particular problem by not having a car.
My girlfriend has solved it by asking me to adjust the clock in her car.
I've solved this particular problem by not having a girlfriend... ... wait...
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@Tsaukpaetra me, never, but talking about it makes me great fun at parties.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I haven't had to change any clocks.
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly? I'm declaring DST a conspiracy.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
The Americans are doing it wrongEurope and US have different DST switch dates.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
It talks about itself in third person now?
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
Something to add to my life checklist:
When buying a new oven or microwave oven, it must not have a radio clock or a built-in DST function.Don't want to lose my only clue about the transition happening, since every other source of time adjusts automatically.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
Something to add to my life checklist:
When buying a new oven or microwave oven, it must not have a radio clock or a built-in DST function.Don't want to lose my only clue about the transition happening, since every other source of time adjusts automatically.
Let's just force our idiots in charge throw the through and through idiotic idea of DST out completely.
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Relevant:
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@Carnage EU already agreed to stop DST, but didn't yet realize it, because they couldn't agree on which timezone to stay in.
Filed under:- …
- profit?
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage EU already agreed to stop DST, but didn't yet realize it, because they couldn't agree on which timezone to stay in.
Filed under:- …
- profit?
UTC seems like a good idea. Seeing how it's in the EU anyway.
If not, just keep using the zones we already use. Just skip the dumb shit DST.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
Something to add to my life checklist:
When buying a new oven or microwave oven, it must not have a radio clock or a built-in DST function.Don't want to lose my only clue about the transition happening, since every other source of time adjusts automatically.
Let's just force our idiots in charge throw the through and through idiotic idea of DST out completely.
Yea can we? Whoever runs on the platform of abolishing DST is going to get like 90% of the vote. We need a president that can unite the country in these trying times
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
27th. Last Sunday in March.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Relevant:
Painful memories. This, most of all, is why I hate Daylight Savings Time. But losing many, many gunslinger ancestors was a small price to pay, to make sure the trains grow properly.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If not, just keep using the zones we already use. Just skip the dumb shit DST.
Well, the question is whether to keep using the zones we already use in winter or the zones we already use in summer.
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@Bulb Exactly that was the point: each member country would have to decide if they preferred "summer" or "winter" time, and then there would be only one final swicth remaining for those who decided for the non-current time zone. But... (I do not know where exactly that failed)
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If not, just keep using the zones we already use. Just skip the dumb shit DST.
Well, the question is whether to keep using the zones we already use in winter or the zones we already use in summer.
Just use standard time. But I guess I shouldn't expect the people in charge to know which one is the standard time.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
UTC seems like a good idea. Seeing how it's in the EU anyway.
As someone currently on UTC+0, I approve of this idea.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I do not know where exactly that failed
There's a small number of people who care a lot, a substantial number of people who most of all want the goddamn politicians to leave this shit alone because they have the pain of implementing rule changes, and a lot of people who grumble a bit when the clocks change and then promptly forget about it for a few months. That's a recipe for people grumbling about things occasionally and then not doing anything about it.
I'd go with permanent (what's now) DST if I had to do any change at all, since that would bias the light of the day towards the afternoon/evening.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'd go with permanent (what's now) DST if I had to do any change at all, since that would bias the light of the day towards the afternoon/evening.
I too, personally, prefer DST over standard time, but still permanently switching to it would be retarded. If you fix it, actually fix it instead of breaking it for eternity.
Second, for good reasons CET is already far wider than it should be, so the preferred answer to "make standard time or DST permanent" probably depends on if you're too far west or east of where it should be.
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@DogsB depending on the exact theme, this may not have been entirely fair grading.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I too, personally, prefer DST over standard time, but still permanently switching to it would be retarded. If you fix it, actually fix it instead of breaking it for eternity.
But how will engineers know when to plant their trains? And won't this lead to a shortage of flint-knappers?
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
When I was a kid, I was wondering how did Windows 98 know. Even without internet connection.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Something to add to my life checklist:
When buying a new oven or microwave oven, it must not have a radio clock or a built-in DST function.I misread this on initial scan as referring to a self-destruct function, and disagreed.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even the cat feeder adjusted itself correctly?
If your cat feeder's adjusted itself already, it's a bit early.
Oh, it's next week? I thought it had already happened.
The Americans are doing it wrongEurope and US have different DST switch dates.Exactly. The Europeans are doing it wrong.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'd go with permanent (what's now) DST if I had to do any change at all, since that would bias the light of the day towards the afternoon/evening.
I too, personally, prefer DST over standard time, but still permanently switching to it would be retarded.
Less retarded than you think. Here's the current timezone map for Europe:
Spain and most of France are in permanent DST in winter and go double-DST in summer. Same with Iceland in relation to GMT and Belarus in relation to Moscow time. Greece is half-DST in winter and one-and-a-half DST in summer. Most places are offset by at least half an hour from their nominal time. And nobody cares.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we re mostly immune to such foolishness here in Arizona
Ah, but then you have the Native American reservations that create great confusion — enclaves within enclaves within enclaves that do/don't/do DST.
But only if you care about them. How often does one even spend enough time going through the reservations to even notice?
Depends largely on your moonshine and fireworks needs. Whaddya looking for?
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
There's a reminder about it on the front page of the newspaper.
Nowadays accompanied by a longer article further back about the retardedness of DST.
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@Gąska usually you throw a fit whenever someone snips the part of your post where exactly that is already mentioned.
Also, the letter spacing in that map gave me cancer.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
makes me great fun at parties
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, for the sake of both precision and accuracy.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, the letter spacing in that map gave me cancer.
Well, do you see anywhere they could possibly fit the "Norwegian Sea" label if the letters were properly spaced?
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska usually you throw a fit whenever someone snips the part of your post where exactly that is already mentioned.
I haven't pulled my haven't drank coffee yet card in a while, might as well do it now.
Although I mentioned the same facts, my point was quite different from yours. It's not perma-DST or timezone mismatch that's retarded, it's the glorification of sun time that's retarded. As long as it's day at 10AM and night at 10PM, most people don't care how accurate their local time is as long as there are 24 hours to the day. Which also explains the widespread hatred for DST - because it makes it so there aren't 24 hours to the day anymore.
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We could just adopt UTC everywhere and just teach people that 09:00 doesn't mean what we've taught people it meant since olden times.
Then again it would require teaching Americans (specifically) that counting up past 12 would be important for once.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We could just adopt UTC everywhere and just teach people that 09:00 doesn't mean what we've taught people it meant since olden times.
Some people say this unironically.
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@Gąska well I'm using it from the perspective that I would live in the correct timezone and everyone else can just learn to deal with it. Full you might say.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We could just adopt UTC everywhere and just teach people that 09:00 doesn't mean what we've taught people it meant since olden times.
It would make my job easier...and it's not like I ever see the sun anyway....PR approved. Push to prod.
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Somewhat related (and back on topic) - fun fact: the abbreviation of Coordinated Universal Time (or "temps universel coordonné" in French) was specifically chosen so it's incorrect in both English and French, to avoid hurting feelings of either country.
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